The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? What’s next for GSA’s IT and Professional Services Categories, including the Schedules and GWACs? is less than one month away!

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau. David Berteau So one of the things we do at PSC is we track all the guidance documents, both at the agency level and at the Office of Management and Budget level. Prepare for a lapse in appropriations.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you don’t have these capabilities in-house, you can get support either through AWS Professional Services, such as with the regulated landing zone offering, or with AWS Partners who have specific LZA offerings. Networks – responsible for network design, monitoring, and configuration changes.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 11, 2023

LZA automates the deployment of AWS Accounts and the configuration of appropriate governance and guardrails, such as centralised logging to a central environment; budgets to govern spend, networking, and security services like threat detection and notifications to a central security team account.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The executive council is led by Alaina Teplitz, State’s assistant secretary of the Bureau of Administration and chief procurement officer, and Douglas Pitkin, State’s director of the Bureau of Budget and Planning and program management improvement officer. This EBRC is in a pilot phase right now. The BRC is a big one for us.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 16, 2024

In this position, Mr. Cox oversees all mission and functional activities required to support the Office of the Chief Information Officer, including service delivery, security, finance and budget, and policy.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On January 25, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo to Chief Acquisition Officers and Senior Procurement Executives that encourages procuring agencies to apply the small business rule of two to orders under multiple-award contracts (MACs).

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Bonfire

JANUARY 25, 2023

Rather than trying to secure budget for new tools, André advises working with tools you already have, like your eProcurement system or even Excel. When it comes to the data you’ll collect, our panelists recommend considering: Vendors in your geographical area What category they fall into (construction, professional services, etc.)

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

For details, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to the executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council, Stephanie Kostro. She’s executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council. The change was part of the National Defense Authorization bill back in 2018.

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Bonfire

MARCH 29, 2022

Crown corporations purchase a variety of goods and services, from professional services to technology to general goods. Roundtable participants said under a certain threshold (around $100K for services and $25K for goods) their client departments have full discretion on how to source.

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Great Government Through Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We rely on encryption to keep information and data transfers safe both in our government work and everyday life – everything from logging into networks and websites to paying with credit cards. The Office of Management Budget then issued M-23-02 advising agencies how to take the threat seriously.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? What’s next for GSA’s IT and Professional Services Categories, including the Schedules and GWACs? What’s next for interagency contracting?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? What’s next for GSA’s IT and Professional Services Categories, including the Schedules and GWACs? What’s next for interagency contracting?

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Federal News Network

MARCH 26, 2024

Both of those agencies received funding increases over what the president had originally requested in his FY 24 budget request, particularly in the Department of Defense. Larry Allen What happens now is the Office of Management and Budget takes all the appropriated money. technological edge across the board.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? What’s next for GSA’s IT and Professional Services Categories, including the Schedules and GWACs? is less than one month away!

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into a range of timely topics, including the next steps for procurement policy and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the evolving budget and market landscape, and advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and cloud technologies.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Significantly, the ASCEND BPA acquisition strategy includes two other related pools: Pool 2 – Software as a Service (SaaS) and Pool 3 – Cloud Related IT Professional Services. Assemble your team of friends and colleagues and save the date to compete for prizes, network with colleague, and contribute to some worthy causes.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Federal Drive with Tom Temin got one view from the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau. One of the things we do at the Professional Services Council is we do track proposed changes to anything that’s going to affect contracts. We also track executive orders.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

An Office of Management and Budget spokesperson said the FAR case is on pause to allow further analysis of security considerations, such as roles and responsibilities for the lifecycle management of the data. GSA kicks off OASIS+ awards GSA made the first set of awards under the OASIS+ professional services multiple award contract on Tuesday.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 1, 2024

That, of course, requires an environment that attracts new talent and offers modern training and development opportunities, where the acquisition workforce members actually build communities both inside and across federal agencies through networking and other learning opportunities,” Harada said in an interview with Federal News Network.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

Bill Introduced to Extend Skills-Based Hiring to Federal Contractors Federal News Network reports that Reps. Under the ACCESS Act, the Office of Management and Budget would be instructed to issue guidance for agencies to implement the bill within 180 days of its enactment. In addition, there is a new Ask the PMO – VA Prosthetics Table.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Congress Passes $3 Billion VA Supplemental Funding Bill Federal News Network reports that on Thursday, the Senate passed a $3 billion VA supplemental funding bill. The plan to increase its workforce diverges from the VA’s FY25 budget request, where the department proposed reducing its workforce by 10,000 positions, mostly within VHA.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

In March 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo that provides more specific directions to agencies for compliance with the guidance outlined in the executive order. Our professional services teams can assist agencies in addressing their specific needs, ranging from consulting to implementation.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

FAS Executive Panels: IT, Professional Services, and Assisted Services and General Supplies and Services On the afternoon of May 8, leadership from GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) will join us to discuss the priorities and initiatives from their respective offices.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

ASCEND is a competitive, multiple-award, multi-agency BPA that addresses the governmentwide demand for cloud solutions, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud solutions, Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud solutions, and Cloud IT professional services. Register today!

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

“We are leaps and bounds ahead of where we were, especially since if you think about from the 2016 timeframe when I was here during the Obama administration, with the amount of data that we have across the federal enterprise,” Harada said in an exclusive interview with Federal News Network.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The advisory states that, “These misconfigurations illustrate (1) a trend of systemic weaknesses in many large organizations, including those with mature cyber postures, and (2) the importance of software manufacturers embracing secure-by-design principles to reduce the burden on network defenders.” As explained in E.O.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

OMB Aims to Increase Small Disadvantaged Business Spending in FY24 On October 25, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo informing agencies of Federal goals to award 13 percent of Federal procurement dollars to small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) in fiscal year (FY) 2024.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It facilitates budgeting and financial planning. We also want to build connections across state lines and support regional networks of government and civil society changemakers in adopting transformative approaches to procurement. But many SNAP users must call a hotline or buy a small item to check their balance on a receipt.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Carolyn Clancy, the VHA Assistant Under Secretary of Health for Discovery, Education, and Affiliate Networks, joined Lt. Contractors must implement Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) as described by the Office of Management and Budget. She also described DHA and VHA as “teammates” working towards enhancing the health care experience.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Whether there’s a fiscal year budget or a continuing resolution the government never stops spending. But this year we saw that Health Services was actually the top area where we see the most money. That is due to a requirement the Community Care network, next generation that’s coming out of Veterans Affairs.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 14, 2023

FAS Commissioner Sonny Hashmi Departing GSA at End of Year Federal News Network reports that the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner Sonny Hashmi will be departing the role on December 29. Please join me in thanking Sonny for his service.” National Cybersecurity Strategy.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 20, 2025

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order in the coming days that would put the General Services Administration in charge of buying all products and services that make up the 10 areas of category management. The post Draft EO would make GSA the center of most common buys first appeared on Federal News Network.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And for 25 years, Federal News Network has been helping them do so. Its our way of celebrating our own quarter century of service. soil had become in a highly networked age with ceaseless transnational movement. Congress reacted with the 2011 Budget Control Act, with its sequestration feature.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 9, 2025

One of its provisions includes the creation of a new senior official within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to serve as the Federal Government Service Delivery Lead. The primary responsibility of this position will be to coordinate Federal efforts to improve government service delivery.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 11, 2025

David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss the steps contractors ought to be taking. It breaks the budget cap that we had from the Fiscal Responsibility Act of a couple of years ago. That’s getting awful close to the shutdown deadline.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 12, 2024

billion in spending, falling just below the mandated budget cap set by the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA). Hale added that Polaris is expected to receive a Best in Class (BIC) designation from the Office of Management and Budget after the vehicle is reviewed. All meetings will be open for public attendance unless stated otherwise.

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